This Week in Internet History: And the Viral Award Goes to...

A better monologue than Steve Martin could ever give, the secret history of Lost, perhaps the best prank ever, a fantastic behind, or...

Monday

Man, am I ready for winter to be over: The snow is finally melting, the sun is shining, and I think the seasonal affective disorder has been getting to everyone. I mean, just check out the sad sack that has become Captain America...

Wednesday

You know what's even spookier than the spookiest person on television? When he turns up in an employee-training video for prison workers. Stay creepy, Ben from Lost.

Speaking of Lost, a fan of the show created this video ode to Hurley, set, naturally, to Miley Cyrus's "Party in the USA." Time well spent.

Thursday

I thought you might like to know how that Best Bottom contest turned out. I mean, I could barely sleep at night waiting for the ballots to be counted. I just had to keep hitting refresh, refresh, refresh:

If you're an Evil Dead fan, which you should be, check out this claymation version of the film. Totally amazing.

This college prank got me excited for April's Fools Day... until the, shall we say, abrupt ending. I wish there was an extended chase sequence set to "Yakety Sax."

Friday

In case last week's nostalgic video fest didn't do it for you, OK GO just created another amazing clip for their song "This Too Shall Pass" the kind that reminds us again why we ever liked music videos in the first place. Now if only there was a TV channel where you could watch these things all the time...

The French may not know bravery (I kid!) but they sure know game shows. I don't know nor do I care what the objective is here. Merci.

Oh, and in case you haven't seen this video yet, it's what you'll be seeing in your nightmares tonight:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/oavMtUWDBTM&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&showinfo=0>Conan's back, and so is Sarah Killen.

Saturday

Getting pumped for the Oscars? Here's a better case for Avatar's best-picture campaign than any 20th Century Fox exec could ever make:

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